Quotes About Education

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.

I think teaching should be an exalted profession, not a picked-on profession.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

We have to move back to the idea that education isn't about teaching people to bow to rigid rules. That's not what democracy is about.

I am greatly honoured to become Patron of The Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre. I have benefited hugely from their work, and I am looking forward to supporting them in giving a chance to others to benefit from their experience and teaching.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.

I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

There are too many kids who are drowning for lack of water safety. That's something I'd like to do. Teaching kids to live an active lifestyle.

I would go to the store, I would buy cassette tapes, and I would read the liner notes and sort of subconsciously creating the connections between the rappers that I was reading and the poets that they were teaching us in school.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

When I was teaching Latin in girls' schools before I became a writer, I didn't much like it if parents would come in and say, 'We'll have less of the Ovid and Virgil and more of the grammar, please.' After all, I was the one in charge. That's how I feel about doctors. You should trust them to do their job properly.

I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.

If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

I think if you enjoy teaching, if you enjoy talking about your craft, that's probably the best way to do it... because once a player starts to get it, once he figures it out, he'll never forget it.

I am teaching more. That is what I do best.